Making baby food

One of the things about growing up country is that you become pretty thrifty and you make things yourself.

When my twins were born they cost a lot of money. By the time they were eating baby food they had good appetites and baby food cost a fortune when feeding two babies. I decided to make my own.

Every night after dinner I took the leftovers and made them into baby food. Even two green beans makes some baby food. I would take whatever we had and then put it in the blender with some of their formula and presto, instant baby food. As they grew the less I blended it.  They got where they would not even eat the baby food you buy in the store except for the fruits and desserts.  As they grew I switched from formula to milk and continued to make their food. It sure saved money and nothing got wasted.

After they were eating regular food I was at a girlfriends house and she was complaining how much baby food cost for her baby. She said she swore half the grocery budget went to baby food, the baby ate better then they did. I told her about how I used to make it all the time and how much cheaper it was as it was food that would be thrown away as it wasn’t enough to keep for the next meal. If I got to far ahead I would freeze it.

She decided she was going to try it as she had a whole bunch of beets left that her other kids would not eat.  She got out the blender, put some milk in it and dropped the beets in and turned it on.  Parts of the beets were still on top so she took the top off and stuck the spatula in to shove them down.  Well you can just imagine what happened, that spatula hit the blades and beets flew all over her kitchen. I mean on the ceiling, all over the floor, in open drawers and cupboards, on the windows were little bits of beets. She had bits of beets on her glasses, in her hair, all over her clothes.

She called me and yelled at me. I told her, you have to shut the blender off before you stick something in it.  She said “you never told me that part”. Well I guess I just figured anyone knew that part if they ever used a blender.  She said someone had bought her the blender as a present and she had never used it before and was never going to again.  No matter how I tried to tell her that ended the blender use. I never knew her to use it again.